He now co-hosts Top Gear America with Tom Ford and William Fichtner. He also appeared in episode 3 of Idris Elba: No Limits as Elba's drag racing instructor. In popular culture īrown had an appearance as an appraiser in episode 8 ('The Fast and The Curious') of the third season of the A&E reality show Storage Wars. Notable: Ran quick enough in the 100-meter dash to qualify for the U.S. He is also an extremely devout Christian. Personal life īrown currently resides in Pittsboro, Indiana with his wife Billie Jo and three children, Anson, Adler, and Arianna. As of the end of the 2022 season, Brown has 71 NHRA wins. Brown won the Top Fuel championship in 2012, 20. In 2008 he switched to Top Fuel dragsters. Brown won 16 events in the motorcycle division, and had a best finish of 2nd in points in 20. Racing career īrown raced in the NHRA's Pro Stock Motorcycle division from 1998 to 2007, running his first three years with Vincent's Team 23 Racing. After being offered a full scholarship to run track for Long Island University, he was contacted by football player Troy Vincent (married to Brown's cousin) who was starting a racing team. īrown studied at Northern Burlington County Regional High School before becoming a track star at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey as a sprinter and long jumper, graduating in 1997 with an associate's degree in business administration. He ran his first competitive drag race as a high school senior. Antron maintained the cars as a child and began racing motorcycles at age six and motocross at age 12, practicing on a course he built on the farm. His father Albert ran a septic tank service, and was a drag racer at the sportsman level. Early life īrown lived in Trenton, New Jersey until age six, when his family moved to his grandmother's 10-acre farm in rural Chesterfield Township, New Jersey following the death of his grandfather. Brown is the first African American champion in drag racing history, winning the Top Fuel dragster championship in 2012, 20. “If somebody gets killed out here, then they’ll come and say 'Oh we should have done something.Antron Brown (born March 1, 1976) is an American drag racing driver, currently driving the Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster for AB Motorsports in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series. “It's very upset, it’s a quality of life issue,” McDonald said. McDonald said the speed bandits are even listening to police scanners to stay one step ahead of law enforcement. News 5 contacted Ward 5 Cleveland Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland about the chronic drag racing issue but we're still waiting for response. I’m sure there’s drugs, illegal drinking while they’re driving.” 'I’m sure some of them are driving with illegal licenses. “They’ll start at East 79 Street and come right down the hill and go right down to East 55 Street, and they even have spectators over there, you can hear them cheering.” “Some nights there’s over 100 cars out here, racing through our streets, they’re not just doing Bessemer, no they’re doing East 65.” “We need an officer here posted in an unmarked car, have them sit the cul-de-sac until they start rallying,” McDonald said. Hyacinth Block Club leader Kathy McDonald told News 5 she reported the drag racing to Cleveland fourth district police numerous times over the past five years, but believes the city 'no chase' policy has hampered enforcement.

“I’d Iike the Mayor to listen to it, maybe he’d like that outside his house on a Saturday night.” 'Regular traffic can’t go up and down Bessemer Avenue because they have to yield to the drag racers.” “Enough is enough, somethings got to be done, it’s got to stop, this has been going on for years,” Scofinsky said. Homeowners like Gary Scofinsky have captured the illegal drag racing on both audio and video recordings and one residents even used a drone to document the potentially dangerous activity. CLEVELAND - East side Cleveland residents living in the area of Bessemer Avenue are demanding a stoppage to the chronic drag racing they said has been terrorizing their neighborhood for years.

Cleveland browns drag racing